DreamWorks Animation
Intertextuality and Aesthetics in Shrek and Beyond
Authors: Summers, Sam
Free Preview- Fills an important gap in animation studies by analysing the work of Dreamworks, a major and yet overlooked studio
- Contributes to the study of stars, film music, genre, comedy and intertextuality theory by applying their approaches to the unique case studies presented by computer animated features
- Develops a theoretical framework to conceive of the intertextual pop culture references in Dreamworks films which characterise their approach to humour
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- About this book
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DreamWorks is one of the biggest names in modern computer-animation: a studio whose commercial success and impact on the medium rivals that of Pixar, and yet has received far less critical attention.The book will historicise DreamWorks’ contribution to feature animation, while presenting a critical history of the form in the new millennium. It will look beyond the films’ visual aesthetics to assess DreamWorks’ influence on the narrative and tonal qualities which have come to define contemporary animated features, including their use of comedy, genre, music, stars, and intertextuality. It makes original interventions in the fields of film and animation studies by discussing each of these techniques in a uniquely animated context, with case studies from Shrek, Antz, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar, Shark Tale, Bee Movie, Trolls and many others. It also looks at the unusual online afterlife of these films, and the ways in which they have been reappropriated and remixed by subversive online communities.
- About the authors
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Sam Summers lectures in animation history and theory at Middlesex University, UK, specialising in computer animation, aesthetics, intertextuality and the Hollywood animation industry. As well as publishing several articles and book chapters on these topics, he is the co-editor of Toy Story: How Pixar Reinvented the Animated Feature (2018).
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Layered, Like Onions: Introducing DreamWorks’ Intertextuality
Pages 1-31
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Why Is Shrek Funny?: DreamWorks and the Intertextual Gag
Pages 33-64
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‘All Star’ Soundtracks: DreamWorks and the Pop Song
Pages 65-90
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Woody Allen in the Anthill: DreamWorks and Star Performance
Pages 91-124
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Parody, Pastiche and the Patchwork World: DreamWorks and Genre
Pages 125-159
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- DreamWorks Animation
- Book Subtitle
- Intertextuality and Aesthetics in Shrek and Beyond
- Authors
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- Sam Summers
- Series Title
- Palgrave Animation
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-36851-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-36851-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-36850-0
- Series ISSN
- 2523-8086
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 233
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
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